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OCR GCSE History A J410
Castles: Form and Function c.1000–1750Historic environment
Topic overviewThe location of Kenilworth CastleThe appearance and layout of Kenilworth Castle at different times in its historyThe day-to-day functions of Kenilworth CastleThe evidence historians use for a castle’s changing functionLife in Kenilworth Castle at different times in its historyKey events associated with Kenilworth Castle at different times in its history
China 1950–1981: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewEarly purges, the Hundred Flowers and social policy in the 1950sLand reform, collectivisation, the First Five Year Plan and the Great Leap ForwardCauses and impact of the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards and TibetThe nature of Communist propaganda and its impactCommunism in China after the death of Mao 1976–1981The Communist state and the Chinese people
Germany 1925–1955: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewThe Weimar Republic 1925–1928 and the impact of the DepressionRising support for Nazis 1929–1933The Nazi consolidation of power 1933–1934The Nazi terror state, propaganda and the people's communityNazi economic and social policy, and the lack of effective oppositionReaction to war, changing fortunes and the home front 1939–1945Racial persecution, the Holocaust and opposition during the warDefeat, occupation and the two Germanys 1945–1955The state and the German people, 1925–1955
International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975
Topic overviewThe Versailles settlement, the League and the agreements of the 1920sThe Depression, the failure of the League and the road to warSoviet actions in Eastern Europe and the Western response, 1945–48NATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile CrisisOrigins of US involvement in Vietnam and the tactics of the warUS withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition at home and the end of the warChanging interpretations of AppeasementChanging interpretations of the responsibility for the Cold WarThe big ideas behind the twentieth-century international order
Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010Thematic study
Topic overviewDiversity before 1066, and the impact of the Norman ConquestJews in medieval England: treatment, integration and expulsionResident aliens in later medieval EnglandAfricans in sixteenth-century England, the East India Company and Britain’s black communitiesThe readmission of Jews in 1656, and Protestant refugeesIndustrial-age migration: the Irish, Eastern European Jews, abolition and ChartismNaturalisation, port communities and immigration law 1870–1948Attitudes towards Jews in the 1930s and migrants in the two world warsThe impact of post-war migration on BritainImmigration as a political issue c.1990–c.2010The big questions about migration to Britain
Personal Rule to Restoration 1629–1660British depth
Topic overviewRelationship between Parliament and Charles I 1629–1642Attempts at settlement, the radical groups and the Army 1646–1649The execution of Charles I 1649The Rump, Cromwell and the Protectorate 1649–1658Attempts to reach a settlement September 1658 – April 1660The tensions that led to war, and the changes that followed
Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c.1000 to 2014Thematic study
Topic overviewAnglo-Saxon kingship, 1066 and the Norman monarchyMagna Carta and the emergence of ParliamentRichard II’s deposition and the Wars of the RosesTudor government, personal rule and the Civil WarsThe Restoration, 1688 and the Bill of RightsThe rise of political parties and a parliamentary monarchyParliament and the people, c.1800–c.1918: reform and the unionsVotes for women, and the state in war and peaceChallenges to Parliament since 1980Claiming, keeping and losing power
South Africa 1960–1994: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewConsolidating apartheid in the 1960s: the Bantustans, state control and SharpevilleReasons for, methods of and impact of different types of resistanceThe further development of resistanceThe Anti-Apartheid Movement and the regime's response in the 1970sGrowing pressure on the regimeThe State of Emergency and the failure of total strategy 1985–1990Negotiations between the government and the ANCThe state and the South African people, 1960–1994
The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550British depth
Topic overviewThe church in England c.1520 and its criticsPopular attitudes to reform, the annulment and the Reformation ParliamentCromwell, the Valor Ecclesiasticus and the dissolution of the monasteriesImmediate reactions to Dissolution including supportResistance and protestDevelopment and changes in religious policy under Henry VIII and Edward VIEnforcing the new religious policies and the Prayer Book Rebellion 1549The English Church before and after the Reformation
The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730British depth
Topic overviewThe Glorious Revolution, the Hanoverian succession and the British IslesDarien, the Act of Union, the 1715 rising and emigration to the AmericasEconomic impact of war and imperial expansionThe Treaty of Utrecht, the South Sea Bubble and the slave-based colonial economyConsumerism, the slave-trading ports and the coffee housesIdeas of racial hierarchy, and opposition and resistance to slaveryWhat empire did to Britain and the British Isles
The USA 1919–1948: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewThe US economy and women in the ‘Roaring Twenties’Prohibition, the Red Scare and immigration restrictionsJim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan and attempts to combat prejudiceEconomic and social effects of the Great Depression and government responseThe Second New DealThe mobilisation of the US people for the war effortSocial impact of the warThe Detroit Race Riots 1943 and segregation in the armed forcesThe state and the American people, 1919–1948
The USA 1945–1974: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewFears of Communism at home, the Red Scare and McCarthyismJim Crow and the development and achievements of the civil rights movementOpposition to civil rights and the role of the Supreme Court and EisenhowerThe roles of Kennedy and Johnson in civil rights campaignsBlack Power, radical leaders, and Native American and Chicano campaignsThe impact of feminismStonewall, anti-war protest and the Great SocietyThe state and the American people, 1945–1974
Urban Environments: Patterns of MigrationHistoric environment
Topic overviewWhen immigrant groups arrived, why and from whereSpitalfields: who came, when and whyWhere immigrants settled and how they were receivedSettling in Spitalfields, and how newcomers were receivedThe experiences of immigrantsWork, housing and faith in SpitalfieldsKey events in local migration historyAltab Ali, Brick Lane 1978 and other key events in SpitalfieldsThe impact of migration on the areaSpitalfields today: impact and the multicultural communityReading an urban site for its migration historyReading the buildings, maps and records of Spitalfields
War and British Society c.790 to c.2010Thematic study
Topic overviewViking raids and the Norman ConquestThe feudal system and feudal military serviceWar in medieval society, c.1290–c.1450Elizabeth I’s wars with Spain, and English privateersBorder warfare, the Civil Wars and the Jacobite risingsImperial wars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuriesThe Crimean War and the Boer WarsThe two world wars and the Cold WarThe IRA campaigns and conflict since 1945What war did to British people and their rulers
International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975
- 9 subtopics
- 27 things to know
- Paper 1
What International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975 covers
International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975 is examined in Paper 1, Period study with non-British depth study. It covers the Versailles settlement, the League and the agreements of the 1920s; the Depression, the failure of the League and the road to war; Soviet actions in Eastern Europe and the Western response, 1945–48; NATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis; the origins of US involvement in Vietnam and the tactics of the war; US withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition at home and the end of the war; changing interpretations of Appeasement; changing interpretations of the responsibility for the Cold War; and the big ideas behind the twentieth-century international order.
Where it is assessed
Paper 1
Period study, compulsory, sat with a non-British depth study; 50% of the GCSE.
Check the OCR specification ↗The 9 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- The Versailles settlement, the League and the agreements of the 1920sThe Big Three, the War Guilt Clause, reparations and military limits, the League's weakness without the USA and its powers, Corfu, the Dawes Plan, Locarno, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Young Plan and the failure of disarmament.Open →
- The Depression, the failure of the League and the road to warThe Wall Street Crash and its effect on Germany and Japan, Manchuria, Abyssinia and the League, the Rhineland, appeasement and Munich, the occupation of Czechoslovakia, the Nazi-Soviet Pact and the outbreak of war in 1939.Open →
- Soviet actions in Eastern Europe and the Western response, 1945–48Yalta and Potsdam, salami tactics, the occupation of Germany and the two states of 1949, the Truman Doctrine, containment, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin blockade and airlift, and what followed from the crisis.Open →
- NATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile CrisisThe founding and central promise of NATO, West German rearmament and the Warsaw Pact, Europe's two armed camps, flight from East Germany, the Berlin Wall and its effect on the risk of war, and Castro, Khrushchev's missiles, the quarantine and the terms that ended the Cuban crisis.Open →
- Origins of US involvement in Vietnam and the tactics of the warThe Geneva agreement of 1954, the domino theory, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Operation Rolling Thunder, search and destroy and the struggle for hearts and minds, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Vietcong tactics and what the Tet Offensive achieved for each side.Open →
- US withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition at home and the end of the warThe draft, Kent State, the Pentagon Papers, Vietnamization, the Paris Peace Accords and why they failed, the fall of Saigon, American deaths, the damage to US standing, détente and the Helsinki agreement of 1975.Open →
- Changing interpretations of AppeasementGuilty Men and wartime hostility, Churchill's unnecessary war, the orthodox view, the Munich analogy and its use over Vietnam, the Cold War's influence, the thirty-year rule, the revisionist case for Chamberlain and the archives opened after 1991.Open →
- Changing interpretations of the responsibility for the Cold WarThe orthodox view that Stalin was to blame, the Soviet explanation, how censorship and McCarthyism shaped history writing, the revisionist interpretation and the Vietnam War, its weakness, the post-revisionist view and what the Soviet archives revealed after 1991.Open →
- The big ideas behind the twentieth-century international orderThe rival forms of government between the wars and in the Cold War, communist economics and its weaknesses, superpowers, the end of European dominance, nationalism and self-determination, ideology, disputes over Hitler's aims and new sources.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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How did the USA go to war in Vietnam from 1964, and how did American tactics affect the Vietnamese peasants?
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How did the four-power occupation of Germany end in the Berlin blockade and a divided Germany?
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Which three leaders dominated the peace conference that met in Paris in 1919?
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How much was Germany finally ordered to pay in reparations, and when was the figure fixed?
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What happened on the New York stock exchange in October 1929?
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Which three leaders met at Yalta in February 1945?
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Which decision of 1955 led directly to the founding of the Warsaw Pact?
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When was the Warsaw Pact signed, and how many states joined it?
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Who took power in Cuba in 1959, and whom did he overthrow?
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What was the draft, and why was it so bitterly resented?
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What happened at Kent State University in May 1970?
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Why were views of appeasement written during the war so hostile to it?
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How did Churchill describe the conflict in his war memoirs?
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How did censorship in the USSR shape the history written there?
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How did McCarthyism affect American writing about the origins of the Cold War?
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Which forms of government were in contention in Europe between the wars?
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Which two systems of government did the Cold War set against each other?
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What limits were placed on Germany’s armed forces in 1919?
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Why did the American slump hit Germany so hard?
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Why was the mood at Potsdam so much worse than at Yalta?
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How did the two alliances change the danger of war in Europe?
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What did Kennedy announce on 22 October 1962?
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What were the Pentagon Papers?
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What was the Munich analogy?
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What became available to historians when the USSR broke up in 1991?
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Which countries outside Europe came under communist government between 1949 and 1975?
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Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Dawes Plan vs Young Plan
Dawes Plan: scheme reducing Germany's yearly reparation payments and arranging large American loans. Young Plan: 1929 scheme cutting reparations to about £2,000 million and spreading payments until 1988.
Truman Doctrine vs Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine: the March 1947 promise of American support for free peoples resisting communist rule. Marshall Plan: about $13 billion of American aid shared among sixteen western European states.
Containment vs Détente
Containment: policy of stopping communism spreading further rather than destroying it where it ruled. Détente: easing of superpower tension around 1970 through negotiation and agreement.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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Which three leaders dominated the peace conference that met in Paris in 1919?
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Woodrow Wilson of the USA, Georges Clemenceau of France and David Lloyd George of Britain, known as the Big Three.
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What did the War Guilt Clause require Germany to accept?
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That Germany was responsible for starting the war and for all the loss and damage it had caused.
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How much was Germany finally ordered to pay in reparations, and when was the figure fixed?
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£6,600 million, a sum settled in 1921.
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What limits were placed on Germany’s armed forces in 1919?
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An army of only 100,000 men with no conscription, tanks, submarines or aircraft, and a navy of six battleships.
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Why did the absence of the USA weaken the League so badly?
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The richest trading nation in the world was missing, so economic sanctions could always be broken and no great force stood behind them.
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What means could the League use against a country that broke the peace?
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Condemnation, then economic sanctions, and in theory military force, although it had no army of its own.
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International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975 revision questions
- What does International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975 cover in OCR GCSE History A?
- 9 subtopics: the versailles settlement, the league and the agreements of the 1920s, the depression, the failure of the league and the road to war, soviet actions in eastern europe and the western response, 1945–48, nato, the warsaw pact, the berlin wall and the cuban missile crisis, origins of us involvement in vietnam and the tactics of the war, us withdrawal from vietnam, opposition at home and the end of the war, changing interpretations of appeasement, changing interpretations of the responsibility for the cold war and the big ideas behind the twentieth-century international order. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975 organised?
- By the OCR J410 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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